Dinesh jain
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While JP Nadda and Amit Shah are still in the reckoning, Om Prakash Mathur may be the new BJP president. He is the late entrant in the race but has straightaway become the front runner, sources said.
Mathur has several factors going for him. The 62-year-old leader belongs to Rajasthan where the BJP has posted a stupendous performance,
3/4th majority in Assembly and a 25-0 clean sweep in Lok Sabha. For last two days Rajasthan BJP leaders felt neglected for because they got
only one Minister of State position
in the council of ministers.
Though his equations with Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje has not really been very good but then that would not be held as a disqualification.
Rajnath Singh, the incumbent party chief's visit to RSS headquarters on Wednesday to meet top RSS functionaries has fuelled speculation that formal consultation process for selection of new party president has begun.
On his appointment as the home minister – and the notional Number Two in the Union Government -- Rajnath Singh has to relinquish party president's post. A senior party leader told Firstpost that "the new party president's name will be announced within a fortnight.
Informal consultations are already
in process.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Om-Prakash-Mathur/715330308561772
Mathur has several factors going for him. The 62-year-old leader belongs to Rajasthan where the BJP has posted a stupendous performance,
3/4th majority in Assembly and a 25-0 clean sweep in Lok Sabha. For last two days Rajasthan BJP leaders felt neglected for because they got
only one Minister of State position
in the council of ministers.
Though his equations with Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje has not really been very good but then that would not be held as a disqualification.
Rajnath Singh, the incumbent party chief's visit to RSS headquarters on Wednesday to meet top RSS functionaries has fuelled speculation that formal consultation process for selection of new party president has begun.
On his appointment as the home minister – and the notional Number Two in the Union Government -- Rajnath Singh has to relinquish party president's post. A senior party leader told Firstpost that "the new party president's name will be announced within a fortnight.
Informal consultations are already
in process.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Om-Prakash-Mathur/715330308561772